Hi Holger, can you try the patch below? It fixes losing the read-ahead value in my little test. diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c index 6b2dbe645d23..4817e7ca03f8 100644 --- a/block/blk-settings.c +++ b/block/blk-settings.c @@ -61,8 +61,14 @@ void blk_apply_bdi_limits(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, /* * For read-ahead of large files to be effective, we need to read ahead * at least twice the optimal I/O size. + * + * There is no hardware limitation for the read-ahead size and the user + * might have increased the read-ahead size through sysfs, so don't ever + * decrease it. */ - bdi->ra_pages = max(lim->io_opt * 2 / PAGE_SIZE, VM_READAHEAD_PAGES); + bdi->ra_pages = max3(bdi->ra_pages, + lim->io_opt * 2 / PAGE_SIZE, + VM_READAHEAD_PAGES); bdi->io_pages = lim->max_sectors >> PAGE_SECTORS_SHIFT; }
